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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

8 best books like Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom (Sean B. Carroll): The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, The Selfish Gene, Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World, At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
AuthorJonathan Weiner
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin...
The Selfish Gene
AuthorRichard Dawkins
ISBN0199291152
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition—with a new Introduction by the Author

Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene....
Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World
AuthorNick Lane
ISBN0198607830
In Oxygen, Nick Lane takes the reader on an enthralling journey as he unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death. He shows how oxygen underpins the origin of biological complexity, the birth of photosynthesis, the sudden evolution of animals, the need for two...
At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
AuthorCarl Zimmer
ISBN0684856239
Everybody Out of the Pond
At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is...
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
AuthorRichard Dawkins
The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own provocative views. Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's Tale takes us modern humans...
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
AuthorRichard Fortey
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

"Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review

"A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth--capacious, jammed with treasures, full of learning...
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
AuthorRichard Fortey
ISBN0375706216
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.

Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five...
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
AuthorDonald R. Prothero
ISBN0231139624
Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we...
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